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White Star Capital closes first institutional fund

White Star Capital, a transatlantic Venture Capital fund with offices in London, New York and Montreal, has closed its first institutional fund with USD70 million in Limited Partner commitments. White Star Capital will deploy between USD500,000 and USD5 million in initial investments into companies in North America and Western Europe. 

80 per cent of PE investors see co-investments outperform comingled funds

Some 80 per cent of limited partners (LPs) have seen their co-investments outperforming private equity funds, with 46 per cent seeing their co-investments outperform by a margin of over 5 per cent, according to a survey by Preqin. This level of performance is the biggest draw for investors, with two-thirds

Apollo funds to acquire RegionalCare Hospital Partners

Funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management are to acquire RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. RegionalCare is the owner and operator of eight market-leading, non-urban hospitals located in Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Iowa, Montana, Ohio, and Texas.   The transaction, which is conditioned on customary regulatory reviews and

Infrastructure fundraising hits all-time highs in Q3 2015

Infrastucture fundraising hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2015 according to Inframation Group’s 3Q15 Infrastructure Fundraising review. The two largest unlisted infrastructure funds ever raised, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, kicked off fundraising of USD15 billion and USD10 billion respectively. GIP’s fund is due to

Elevar Equity closes third venture fund

Elevar Equity has held the final close of Elevar Equity III (EE III) at USD74 million. EE III is focused on commercial investments in early stage companies providing financial services, education, housing and healthcare to low-income communities primarily in India and Latin America. With the new fund, Elevar manages over

Amicus launches new commercial finance business

Amicus Finance is to launch a new commercial finance business dedicated to serving the small business and professional services communities.  Amicus Commercial Finance will be led by two highly experienced and proven market specialists, John Wilde and David Hogg, who built SME Invoice Finance Limited (SMEIF) from start-up in 2000

Rakuten launches USD100m global FinTech Fund

Rakuten has launched the Rakuten FinTech Fund, a USD100 million global investment fund focused on investments in disruptive early to mid-stage fintech startups that offer ‘attractive return potential with strategic relevance’. The fund will target investments in startups and growth companies primarily in the US and Europe and build on

Robert Perdock

Mill Hill selects Gravitas for cloud support solutions

Gravitas Technology Services is to provide alternative investment manager Mill Hill Capital with cloud hosting, archiving, network support and failover capabilities across its trading, investment, portfolio management, finance, and operations functions.  Mill Hill Capital relies on proprietary valuation, cash flow models and vast amounts of market data to perform its

Quaero Capital holds first close of European Infrastructure fund at EUR50m

Geneva-based Quaero Capital has completed the first close of its European Infrastructure fund, with EUR50 million of commitments. The dedicated private equity fund, a French-domiciled 'Fonds Professionnel de Capital Investissement' structure, invests in small to mid-sized project finance transactions in the transport, social infrastructure, telecom, utilities and energy sectors across

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